The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) was established on this day in 1919. CPUSA provided legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys, helped poor Southern farmers form sharecropper unions, and promoted communist ideas within the U.S.

The party was established after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution, and initially operated underground due to the Palmer Raids, a series of anti-immigrant, anti-labor, and anti-communist raids conducted by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

CPUSA was an early opponent of segregation and racial discrimination, giving legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys and helping poor black farmers in the South organize sharecropper unions. Because of this, the party had a strong presence in Alabama in the 1930s. This history is detailed in “Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression” by historian Robin D.G. Kelley.

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  • Abraxiel [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I was going to say Sea of Stars is pretty good, but I just got to a pirate that’s super self-aware that it’s a video game and referencing tropes (and calling them that), which is just pissing me off. The game is not well-written enough to get away with this and the rest of it didn’t really set this up at all. This goober aside, the game’s a little too twee for my tastes, but if you like to maximize your comfycore, it might be nice.

    The sound and art is really well done though. Gamefeel is nice, it’s responsive, movement is quick, and the battles are definitely working and have some sauce. If you like Chrono-Trigger’s trappings, this might scratch an itch.

    Writing’s pretty uninteresting though.

      • Comp4 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Funny that you mention Chained Echoes. Chained Echoes just looked a bit more interesting than Seas of Stars (to me) havent looked deep into either though.

    • Goblin [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Twee is a very good way say it. I think I just hate whoever this company’s writing team is. Messagers dialogue was cringy too, fun to play tho.

      I just want a game written like disco Elysium but I can bop some goombas with a big stupid hammer. Too much to ask for apparently

    • Poogona [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Man I played The Messenger (previous game, a platformer, by the same devs) and felt exactly the same. A lot of work clearly went into it but it had this style of writing that felt like it could have been from transplanted from any high schooler uploading little fics with their OC in it to DeviantArt. Just this annoying tendency to hint at there being some kind of drama that the characters immediately say “haha nope that’d be a whole thing and that would stress us all out so let’s just get on with things!”

      Drove me crazy in a way that I didn’t feel comfortable complaining about because the devs were having fun making everything cute was fine but damn it let me experience some emotion PLEASE